Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. ANOTHER HOLOCAUST. The Richmond Hotel In
 Buffalo Burned. ALSO BUhhEll'S MUSEUM. Several Burned To Death
 And Many Injured. THE BRIDGE INSPECTION. Sensible Views Of General
 B. F. Butler.
TERRIsLE HOLOCAUST.

! | Bufalo-Many Persons Killed and | Large Numbers Injured-Tsrr1hle Suherings of the 8urned-Full Par | tieulars.
 | BUFFALO, N. Y., March 1s.-A fire was | discovered at 3:30 o'clock this morning in | the new Richmond Hotel. An alarm was | sounded and the fire department responded promptly. The house contained large l number of guests and their heartrending | shrieks could plainly be heard. Ladders I were raised and as many as possible saved. A large number of guests were unable to ef- I feet their escape. At o'clock the entire Richmond Hotel St. James Hall and other property in the block were doomed to speedy ! destruction. The whole place burned like 8 finder box. The corridor in the center of the building acted as great funnel and as | the flames streamed upwards the guests found themselves imprisoned by a wall of fire. The screams of the guests could be heard for blocks. At many of the windows could be seen frightened women in their i night clothes calling wildly for help. At the l third floor windows two guests were seen by the crowd to fall back into the flames. One man jumped from the fifth deor to the roof ! of two-story wood building adjoiniug. He was seriously injured.
 There were one hundred and twenty-five persons in the hotel, seventy of whom were I transient guests, eight boarders and the re- 1 mainder perters, bell boys, the families of | the proprietors and clerks. Twenty-Five of | these were rescued from the windows by the \ fremen, twenty two are at the hospitals and large number made their escape by other means. The elevator shaft served as hue for the flames and they rushed to the top floor in very few moments. As the guests were | reused and saw the interior exits cut of they | turned to the windows. They could be seen | in their night clothes standing out clear | and vivid before the lurid flames. Their 1 screams were horrible to hear and they could be heard for blocks The flames ! spread to the southwest side of the hotel ! first The fremen did noble work and | confined the fire to the narrow limits of ! the buildings named. The work of rescue | had many exciting incidents. The telegraph ! wires were as usual in the way of the lad | der brigade and much valuable time was ! lost in getting the ladders past them. The father of Mary Welch, servant at the Richmond, this afternoon reported to the ! coroner that she was missing. Her cousin, who is in the hospital, saw her endeavorlng ! to jump and that was the last seen of her. It is believed that her name must be added to the list of the dead Another servant girl was reported missing this afternoon. It is impossible to state definitely the number of killed and injured, but it is believed the killed will not exceed eight, if that many. At the undertaking rooms of Brady & Drullard are the bodies of Wilson Purcell and an unknown woman. The body of woman horribly burned and clothed only in wrapper was taken from Wahle's base ment To the list of the dead must undoubt- edly be added the name of Mark Osborne, day clerk.
 The body of the woman recovered this morning was identified as that of Kate Wolf of Lockport.
 The hotel building and St. James hall were insured for $90, 900, which covers the loss to the Library association. Stafford & Co.'s loss is s75, ,00O and their insurance $34, 300. Fuller & Townsend, proprietors of the Bos- ton clothing store, estimate their loss at $50, 900; covered by insurance. Peter, Paul & Brothers loss is $50, 900; insured. The loss of Ulbrich & Kingsley is 35,00O and is covered by insurance. The minor losses are estimated at S10,0 900.
 William H. Abort, the night clerk, says ssThe fire started in the cloak raom under the main stairway at $50 o'clock. There was nobody up but myself, the night porter and the bell boy. pulled all four of the fire alarms on the different floors and the people came flying down stairs in their night clothes. The fire followed the elevator and inside of five minutes it reached the top floors, I rushed out of doors after doing all could.
 The following is a list of the injured: At Emergency hospital, Edward W. Leelan Of 256 Liberty street, Newburgh, burned about the hands and feet; William J. Mackay of Niagara Falls, feet, back and arms burned; | Perry Davis of New York, hands and feet ! injured; H. B. Smith of Syracuse, face, hands and feet burned
 At the Sisters hospital all being very seri- | ously injured Mary Nolan, badly about the | body, may not recover; Maggie Mubrach, seriously burned about the body face and hands; 8 man named Nichols, very seriously | injured; Frank Harney, seriously burned. At the Fitch hospital Frederick K. Moore of Cleveland, O., severely injured about the + face hands and feet; William A. Haven of | Helena, Mont, burned about the hands, feet | and face and suffering from shocks. He is | chief engineer of the Northern Pacific rail-
 road Edwin A. Finch of Scranton, Pa, suf- l fers from serious burns about the face, hands and feet, not in a dangerous condi- ton; Henry B. Ramsey of New York auf- | fered from burns all over the body; O. M. \ Dubois of Syracuse is severely burned all over the body; Jacob Kohn of New York
 badly injured by jumping from the fourth ! hoor-he broke his back and one leg, and l was also burned about the head, arms and ] body; May Witte of this city burned about the face and arms; F. A. Kohn of New York
 badly injured in spine and right arm brok- l en.
 ! At the General hospital-Matthew Shan
 non, slightly injured; Clinton Bidweli, 1 burned in face; Nellie Welch, face and lands burned; Mrs Kate Pierce, slightly burned. The insurance men who were at the ho- tel were: Col, J. E. Bassett and J. w. Cone of the lEtna of Hartford; M. o. Dennis of the Royal, W. s. Dewey of the Hartford, c, W, Dubois of the Commercial Union, G. A. Furness and w. P. Lamb of the
 Phenix of Hartford, W. J. Mackay of the Springfield, L. S. Morgan of the Home, J. T. McCurdy of the Continental, o. W. Palmer. H. B, Smith, James H. VanBuren of the Connecticut, W. H. Van Emery, Will lard Welch of the City of London. All of these gentlemen are safe.
 The following proclamation was issued this
 afternoon.
 Mayors office, | RurrALo, N Y March IS, pm
 Whereas, Numerous fires have occurred n this clty
 suspicion in the hen minds Sf the
 that some q Pb Bseer oeen aTor tS
 eGw eity of Burao, do hereby offer reward of $500
 for the apprehension and conviction of any person
 sIlssiy lsiyyned1 et Sn' PHILLIP BECKER, Mayor. | Matthew Shannon, the houseman, was on a | cot in one of the waros. ne siePs Wlth tne | elevator boy on the top on the fifth floor. He
 was aroused by the electric alarm.
 He woke the boy and started him down
 the elevator. Then he went back
 woke up the domestics and brought four of
 them down the back stairway to Eagle street
 entrance. All were badly burned on theiI
 way out. Minnie Neller, servant whose
 another servant, badly burned about face
 hands and legs. They braved the flames
 and smoke in the halls and stairways from 5 the fifth floor and were rescued from thire
 servant, rescued by Mat Shannon, severely z burned. Maggie Morrison, servant, severe
 burned: she was also saved by Shannon; sh, > bas zone to her home. While the fire wa r in progress brave rescuing party consisting of William A. Carney, ir., assisted by hv others did heroic work reseuing several per
 sons from the flames. Among the number wa
 Nora Sweeney, achambermaid. She wa
 struck by falling glass while standing in
 third story window and had an eye torn ou
 | foip ta1 and fall int